How One Michigan City Is Sending Kids To College Tuition-Free

April 16, 2014Michel MartinNPR

Paying for college presents a tremendous hurdle to many families, from wading through paperwork and to understanding of college debt. But what if the city you lived in footed the bill for college? That’s what Kalamazoo, Mich., has done for almost a decade. The effort, called the Kalamazoo Promise, has spent about $50 million assisting more than 3,000 students from the city.